The Jewish people are often wrongly presented during the Shoah as a people of sheep who allowed themselves to be led to the slaughterhouse without resisting!

What a historical error! Almost everywhere there were revolts!

Let’s talk about those of October 7, 1944: the revolt of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Jewish prisoners who were forced to work in the Sonderkommando (special commandos responsible for removing bodies from the gas chambers and cremation in the ovens) at Auschwitz II-Birkenau revolted on October 7, the largest and most spectacular attempt at mutiny and escape from the history of Auschwitz.

The prisoners blew up crematorium IV, thanks to the women from the perimeter adjacent to the crematorium who brought powder in their pockets every day (at the risk of their lives, they were slaves in an arms factory). They also attacked the SS who were watching them.

A group from Crematorium 2 cut the barbed wire fences of their enclosure as well as the fences of the adjacent women’s camp and fled.
The SS caught up with them about 1.5 km from the crematorium.

Around 250 Jewish prisoners were killed during the revolt, including one of the organizers of the revolt Załmen Gradowski (we will soon talk about him, in fact he left behind many manuscripts that he had buried under the gas chambers with his testimonies)

The SS lost three men in this revolt and more than ten wounded.
Later, as a result of the repressions, another 200 Sonderkommando prisoners were killed. The female prisoners who worked in the factory and who had supplied the powder were publicly hanged in early January 1945.